Thanks to the Merc’s Buzz Ryan for the title, the concept and all the relevant information you’re about to read.

Since Hotline readers might have missed the flawless logic he used in dismantling the ACC in the Merc last week, I wanted to include it here and now because it holds up well after the Tar Heels’ national title. In fact, it holds up better after the Tar Heels’ title …

Buzz made the case that ACC basketball has become the equivalent of Pac-10 football — a league dominated by one program and one coach: North Carolina under Roy Williams.

He writes:

“Williams has restored the dominance at a legendary program, just like (Pete) Carroll at USC. Also, just like Carroll, he has benefited greatly from — and probably caused — his rivals’ lapse into curled-up mediocrity or worse.”